Ross Henderson
Software Developer at Winnow
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolRoss Henderson is a pragmatic software developer with 10+ years of experience (4 years in focused backend roles) building robust, scalable services in Go, Java and cloud-native environments. He has shipped production systems at scale across FACEIT, Buf and now Winnow—working on everything from gRPC/Protobuf APIs and Kafka-style data pipelines to Terraform/Kubernetes deployments and Grafana Cloud migrations. Comfortable as an individual contributor or customer-facing engineer, he led Buf’s migration to centralized metrics and served as their first customer engineer, blending deep technical troubleshooting with clear communication. At FACEIT he helped kickstart the Go migration, saved significant costs by replacing a third‑party tracking service, and built pipelines that measurably improved platform health. An active open-source contributor, he’s improved the popular bufbuild/buf project (HTTP/2 proxy handling, middleware helpers and tightened error handling), showing attention to reliable, observable infrastructure.
4 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
A Level, A Level at The Sixth Form College FarnboroughBSc Computer Science with Industry, BSc Computer Science with Industry at University of LeicesterGCSE, GCSE at Calthorpe Park Secondary School
Github Skills (11)
http10
go10
grpc10
protocol-buffers10
cli9
apidoc9
bufr9
protoc9
api9
error-handling9
buf9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
bufbuild/buf
Jul 2022 - Sep 2022
The best way of working with Protocol Buffers.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 reviews, 4 commits, 18 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Ross contributed to the `bufbuild/buf` repository by implementing features and improving existing functionalities. They enhanced the HTTP/2 client to respect proxy settings and added a helper to integrate middlewares within a chi Group. Furthermore, the user addressed logging behavior by adding an option to silence specific endpoints. Additionally, the user worked on file size validation and improved error handling during login.
protocol-buffersbuf-schema-registryprotobufgrpcbuf-cli
rhbuf/hello-service
Mar 2023 - Mar 2023
Contributions:3 PRs, 10 pushes, 2 branches in 1 day
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